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A TALE OF MYSTERY.

By EDGAR WALLACE.

Author of "The Four Just Men," "The Secret House" u., &c.

MARINE COURT CASE.

HARD LABOUR FOR OLD OFFENDER.

1927.

At the Marine Court this morn. ing, before Lieut. Commdr. G.F. Hole, Chau Tak Shing,. a hawker of Canton Road, was charged with boarding the s.6. Lai Sang at the Kowloon Wharves, on September the 12, without having obtained permission of the commanding officer.

P. & O-BRITISH INDIA, APCAR AND EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN-LINES.

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DEVANHA Defendant pleaded guilty, and Inspector Brown stated in reply to KIDDERPORE JOHN MORLAY, head of a firm awkwardness of movement and his Worship, that the accused had of private inquiry agents, is called resture; he had been conscious of two previous convictions register- KHYBER upon by friend, JULIAN long limbs and an almost mascu- ed against him, but not for this ALIPORE two convictions NYANZA LESTER, who is interested in the line grip of hand. There was har-offence. The

amony and grace in her movements proved to be under the Opium MALWA COUNTESS MARIE FIOLI,

now; the gaucherie of childhood Ordinances, and in support of the NAGPORE beautiful young girl.

the case before the

KASHMIR Morlay is told of a MRS. CARA-had come to be a rhythm; thu charge in WOOD, the Countess's nurse, who round, firm cheeks had delicate Court, a letter was produced from

the master of the Lai Sang is the owner of a number of shops shadows,

All through the short service A sentence of one month's im in London, which she somewhat mysteriously acquired after the which followed her appearance,prisonment, with hard labour, was death of the Countess's mother, in his eyes did not leave her. When passed. whose employment she was.

Acting on a strange impulse, Morlay calls at one of the shops, to find Mrs. Carawood has gone to Cheltenham to visit Countess Marie. He finds himself bound for Cheltenham too.

CHAPTER II.

!

Mrs. Carawood passed under the now familiar grey arch of the Col- lege, turned to the left and towards the circular stone stairs.

FRENCH BALLOON GOES LONG WAY.

the golden head was bent in prayer and all other eyes were downcast, his were fixed upon these odd com-

RACE. panions, the woman in her severe THE GORDON-BENNETT black dress, the girl in her white blouse. And the longer he looked the more revolting seemed the cold-blooded scheme of Julian Lester. There was a new ugliness. in the commission which this exquisite young man had offered. There and then John Morlay di sociated himself from his "client." After the simple service was The "crocs" were beginning to over, the two passed down the arrive from the houses, long stairs, together into the corridor; double lines of girls in blue, their and then Mrs. Carawood became

All the other balloons, have flaming. house dolours worn in the aware, even in the soft ecstacy shape of ties. She had passed the which always filled her when she descended except two German Cranmore croc in the street, and was in the girl's presence, that a competitors.-Reuter & had seen two senior girls bicycling man was standing watching them, to "Coll" wearing the Mendip tie,

a tall, good-looking man with a and they were at once invested smile on his lips. with a special glamour, for Marie's house was Mendip the first house in the college for all field sports.

The college porter, hurrying past, recognized her.

"Good morning, Mrs. Carawood -have you seen her ladyship?"

"No. Mr. Bell," the dark-faced woman almost smiled. "I came down by the late train yesterday. is my lady well?"

"She was when I saw her yester- day," said the porter. "Are you waiting to take her home?"

Mrs. Carnwood shook her head. "No," she said, rather shortly, and went on her way.

At the top of the staircase, prefect, with the shield of her office hanging, like a medal from her blouse, shewed her through a doorway and to a pine seat,

"The Countess Flolf, is it not?" he asked, hat in hand.

The girl stared at him for a moment and then laughed softly.

"Oh, I remember you-you are Mr. Morlay."

John Morlay was staggered. "Mr. Lester introduced you at Rumpelmeyer's."

The frown that had gathered on the woman's face slowly dis- jappeared, and Jack thought he They detected a sigh of relief. walked towards the porter's gate together, and then. with a quick kiss and hug for the woman and a nodding smile to John Morlay, the girl vanished through the

doorway.

For a second there was silence," She and then, looking at Mrs. Cara- was in the gallery that surround-wood, he saw her staring at the ed Hall on three sides. At one end doorway through which Marie-haż was a atage draped with heavy vanished, and there was in her blue curtains. In the centre alface no concentrated a devotion table with a sliver reading-deak that even he was astounded. He An saw a light in her eyes, a certain and a bowl of flowers on top. organ was playing softly, and tenseness in her mien, which spok, already the girls were filing in,eloquently of the emotion which each going to her place until the even that brief interview had floor space and all the galleries were filled.

was

aroused.

"Soon she will be leaving school, won't she?"

Mrs. Carawood nodded. "Next week," she said.

"You are very fond of your The woman looked upon a sea little charge?" said Jack softly.

With a start she turned to him. white blouses and neatly.

"Fond of her?" Her voice was come Last to brushed heads. were the seniors sitting at the husky. "Why, I should think so! head of the congregation. A girl She's like my own." prefect came into Hall, whispered to a mistress, and went out. Mrs. Carawood's eyes glowed at the sight of the slim figure until it

"And what do you intend doing her Kone. Then, over shoulder, she looked at the door. with her. Is she going to Italy?" The woman's eyes met his and Marie appeared,. flushed and breathless, came silently to the he saw in them the dawn of new and sat down by the woman's suspicion.. Kide. Their hands met in a clinc- ing hug, and then check touched then, as if repenting her brusque- Throughness: "I don't know what I shall She is very cheek for a moment. door by the side of the platform do with her yet, came the senior prefect, prayer young." book in hand, and behind her a majestic woman,

"No," she said, shortly.

".

And

"Too young to marry." stated in academic rather than asked the other.

He was not exactly supporting gown, her cap under her arm, a

his client's case; but then, he did lady with a grave, kind face.

From the opposite gallery John not regard Julian Lester in that Не was ridiculously Morlay watched the pair. He had light. been one of the first of the visitors anxious to discover whether Mrs. to enter fall and had taken his Carawood favoured the suit of the place in the solitude fully a quar-elegant young man, and he had ter of an hour before the first line his answer when he say the cloud of girls had filed in noiselessly to in her face.

"Much too young," she said, "Marie hus 110 their places.

The identity of the woman be emphatically.

There was no further excuse for guessed. She was in the region of wish to leave me." fifty, swarthy of face and yet noti

There lingering. With a life of his hat unpleasant to look upon. was something of the gipsy in thee turned away, and she watched Her him from the entrance until he romantic Mrs. Carawood. black hair was untouched with had turned a corner and was out grey and at this distance, whereof sight. the lines about her eyes were in visible, her face was singularly emooth.

Then she saw the porter. "Who was that gentleman. Mr. Bell?" she asked.

"The man who was talking to "He's Mr. She nodded.

"

The girl when she came, rather took his breath away. He had you?" tained a memory of a slim adMorlay. He came down here two pretty school girl, but in the years ago over some fraud that months which had passed since his had been worked on the staff. He first and only meeting with her, is a sort of detective...

Her trembling hand went up to a subtle maturity showed. It would be (he thought) ridiculous her mouth, the dark face turned The porter was speaking to describe her as a woman: it grey. would be equally absurd to speak yet she did not hear him.

"A detective" Her beart beat of her as a child.

Nature had

Oh, my

modelled so delicately that figure painfully as her lip formed the aud face were in some manner words. She had been God!" transformed.

A certain boyishly slim, with

"A detectivel (To be Continued),"

that a children suffering from rickets 'The announcement synthetic vitamin had been creat with much success, being first ed at last has anoused all the more dissolved in oil. When Ergosterin interest as the inventor is Profes-is irradiated by the ultra-violet sor Windaus, of Gottingen, who la rays of the quartz lamp it is said honoured in this country as the to take on the exact properties of originator of the doctrine of the real vitamin. It is hoped by! vitamins. The name given to the further experiment to probe the prenaration is Ergosterin. It is mystery of the chemical properties tasteless and has been given to of the vitamins themselves.

New York, Sept. 12. The French balloon La Fayette has passed over Loganville, in Georgia, the furthest distance hitherto recorded in the Gordon- Bennett competition.

Service.

American

SHARE PRICES.

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.

Тоци

From Hong- kong 'about!

8,155 17th Sept 5,334 19th Sept.

9.1141

5,273

1st Oct. 6th Oct 7,023 12th Oct. 10,986 15th Oct.

5,283

20th Oct.

8,985

29th Oct.

11120

12th Nov.

16,504

26th Nov.

Destination

M'les, L'don, A'werp & Hult Straire, Colombo, Bombay

& Karachi

Mlea, L'don, A'werp & Holl Straite, Colombo & Bombay 8traits, Colombo & Bombay Marseilles & London Straits, Colombo & L'den M'les, L'don, A'werp & Hol Marseilles & London

Marseilles & London

MACEDONIA MONGOLIA *Calls at Port Sudan. Does not carry 2nd class passengers.

$requeat cognections from Port Buid for Passengers & Cargo so Constantinople, Peresa. Amyrna and other Levant Ports by Stammers of the Abedivial Mail 8, 8.0..

TALMA TILAWA

BRITISH INDIA-APOAR · SAILINGS.

| 10,000 i 10,006 EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN

16th Sept: 29th Sept.

S'pore, Penang & Calcutta S'pore, Penang & Caloutta SAILINGS (South)

T. ALBANS

RAFURA TANDA

4,500 1 6.000

30th Sept. 28th Oct. 2nd Dec.

6.956

| Manila, Sandakan, Thurs, Island, Townsville, B'bane. Svdney and Melbourne.

Regular Monthly Sailings from Hongkong to Japan and Hongkong to Australia

The E&A. B. 8. Co., Ltd. meamers will also call at Shanghai, idile, Ostra Calambagan, Tawa, Timor. Darwin, or other ports en roots as inducement chers

Frequent connections from Australis with the following — The Union 8.8 Co's Steamers to the United Kingdom New Zealand. Vancouver Ban Francisco, etc.

The P. & O, Royal Mail Steamers to Londos via Beos Canal, The P. & O. Branch Bervice of Biesmers to Londen via the Cape.

The New Zealand Bhipping Co.'s Steamers or Boribampion and London vis soma Canal,"

The following is the list of local | LABORE share quotations issued to-day:

Banks.

Hongkong Bank, $1075 b. Chartered Bank, £201 Mercantile A. & B., £32. a. Mercantile C., £133 n. P, and O., £9) b. East Asia, $68 n.

Marine Ins.

Canton Ins, #590s, China Underwriters, $1.50 North China, Tis. 143 n. Union Ins., $293 n. Yangtaze Ins., $41 b.

Fire Ins.

China Fires, $210 b.

H. K. Fire Ins., $600 a.

Shipping.

Douglases, $33 b.

B.

HK. Steamboats, $21 H. K. Tugs, $1 15 b. Indo-Chinat, (Pref.) $30 D. Shell Trans., 92/- 0. Star Ferries, $54.60 b. Waterboats, $17.

Refineries.

China Sugars, $35 n Malabons, $31

Mining.

Bonguets, $1.70 n.

Kailans, 49/- b.

Langkals, Tis. $171. b..

3.

S'hai Exploration Tla. 3.15 b. Shanghai Loans, Tls. 61 b. Raube, $b.

Tronobs, 19/3 n.

Ural Caspians, 5/. n.

Ducks, etc.

Kowloon Wharves, $114 b. Whampoa Docks, $35 n. Hongkews, Tls. 141 b New Engineeringe, Tls. 4 b. Bhanghai Docks Tis. 92 b. Lands, Hotels, etc.

n.

b.

b.

H. and S. Hotels, 6 H. K. Lande, $551 Realtys, $6 1. Territorials, $178. Humphroys, $12 Princes Bldge, $45 b. Rural Lands, $li n.

Cottons.

Ewo Cottons, Tis. $71 ė.

b Orientals, Tis $1,50 S'hai Cottons, Tis $47. n.

Buses, Trams. China Buses, Tls. 7 Tramways, $20. n. Peak Trams, (old) $14 Singapore Trams, 12/6. b. Taxis, $1 n.

Miscellaneous.

Amusements, $20 n.

Canton Ices, $5

Comerits (Comb.) $7 s.

b.

China Lights, $124

China Prov., 84. Constructions, 817

6.

6,

Dairy Farms, $15.30 b.. Der A. Wing, $6 n. H'kong Electrics, 853 n Macao Electrics, $37 b. Ropos (Old) $10 n. Lane Crawfords, 65 5. Mackintosh, $22 Sincures, 8 n. Watsons $11. United Aboatos, $126

Powells, $5 -8.7 Telephone 3,70 a.

1.

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI

TAKLIWA

7,936

16th Sept.

MALWA

10,986

NYANZA

7,023

16th Sept. 22nd Sept.

5,252

KASHMIR

8,985

ARAFURA MACEDONIA MONGOLIA

10,946

KASHGAR

9,005

ST. ALHAND

4,500

MOREA

10,953

27th Sept. 30th Sept. 6,000 4th Oct. 11,120 15th Oct. 16,504 29th Oct.

6,956 8th Nov. 12th Nov. 26th Nov. 6th Dec. 10th Dec.

TANDA MANTUA

JAPAN

Amoy, Moji, Kobe & Yoko S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Yoko Shanghai, Moji & Kobe S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Yoko S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Yaku Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Yoko S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Yoko S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Yoko Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Yako S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Yoko S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Yoku. Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Yoko 1-8'hai, Mofi. Kobe & Yoke

All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice.

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Motor Vessel "GLENBEG"

29th

Septe

Motor Vessel "GLENTARA"......

18th Oct.

Steamship "CARNARVONSHIRE"

27th Oct

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10th Nov."

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